NCT00689988

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and Lexical Gain in Children With Down Syndrome

Augmentative and Alternative Communication and Lexical Gain in Children With Down Syndrome: Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 5 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 11 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Children with Down syndrome (DS) have language development particularities that have negative effects in the communication capacity. By this way, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is indicated to this population. The aim of this study was to verify the AAC impact in the lexical gain of children with DS.

Detailed description

Five children with DS, with the same cognitive level, participated in this study. Longitudinal follow-up of twelve months of speech-language therapy with AAC use was undertaken. A lexical evaluation was done at the beginning and the end of this follow-up. Correct responses in the lexical evaluation were increased, but not necessarily in the spoken modality. The comparisons showed significant results in use of substitutions processes, and to no-answers.

Conditions

• Down Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	speech-language therapy with AAC intervention	speech-language intervention in weekly 40-minutes sessions, without the presence of parents or caregivers, and 5 to 10-minutes to parents training and orientation

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-07-01
• Primary completion: 2007-10-01
• Completion: 2008-06-01
• First posted: 2008-06-04
• Last updated: 2008-06-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil